That's right, it's time for another captcha thread, now with 30% more whine. BYOCheese.
So when we went through the first round of people crying about captchas including indecipherable characters and foreign languages, I posited that the natural end product of such a system was having to answer increasingly complex math questions to prove your humanity. It seems this post was actually kind of prophetic.
While we've since gotten rid of reCaptcha, we've run into the problem I put forth as a joke. Namely, this:
So, with increasingly sophisticated screen reading software and the constant arms race between spam bots and real content providers, which way do you think we're heading with Captchas?
I think trivia based Captchas could work for a while, but they can't be randomly generated. Presumably companies would be limited to making a set number and type of questions, which could be crowdsourced to those stupid Facebook polls.
So when we went through the first round of people crying about captchas including indecipherable characters and foreign languages, I posited that the natural end product of such a system was having to answer increasingly complex math questions to prove your humanity. It seems this post was actually kind of prophetic.
So, with increasingly sophisticated screen reading software and the constant arms race between spam bots and real content providers, which way do you think we're heading with Captchas?
I think trivia based Captchas could work for a while, but they can't be randomly generated. Presumably companies would be limited to making a set number and type of questions, which could be crowdsourced to those stupid Facebook polls.